Dada, surrealism, and the cinematic effect

This book deals with the early intellectual reception of the cinema and the manner in which art theorists, philosophers, cultural theorists, and especially artists of the first decades of the twentieth century responded to its advent. While the idea persists that early writers on film were troubled...

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1. Verfasser: Elder, R. Bruce 1947- (VerfasserIn)
Format: E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Waterloo, Ont : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2013
Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel:Film and media studies series
Film and Media Studies
Schlagworte:Dadaism Surrealism Art and motion pictures Electronic books
Umfang:Online-Ressource (x, 765 p)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Notes""; ""1 The Fate of Reason in Modernity""; ""The Modern Paradigm: Privileging Reason""; ""Geometry and Geometries""; ""Foundationalism Collapses""; ""Logic and Paradox""; ""Continuity and the Foundations of Physics""; ""Cantor and the Strangeness of Infinity""; ""Formalist Mathematics and the Limits of Reason""; ""Consequences of Reasonâ€?s Retreat""; ""“Primitivismâ€? as a Response to the Collapse of Reason""; ""Notes""; ""2 Dadaism and the Disasters of War""; ""The ZÃ?rich Coterie and Their Antics""
  • ""The Dada Conspirators: Tristan Tzara""""The Dada Conspirators: Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings""; ""The Dada Conspirators: Francis Picabia""; ""The KÃ?nstlerkneipe Cabaret Voltaire and the Galerie Dada""; ""DADA: War and Politics""; ""DADA against the Burgeoning of Nationalism: What DADA Might Have Prevented""; ""A Precursor of DADA: The Comic Grotesque""; ""The Diffusion of DADA""; ""The Conditions That Produced the State of Mind Known as DADA""; ""Elementalismâ€?s Menacing Lure""; ""DADA: Art and Anti-Art""; ""DADA and the Life-Principle""; ""Constructive DADA""
  • ""Hans Richter on the Six Forms of Use in Returning Art to Its Elementary Condition""""Dada Forms: Collage""; ""Further on Collageâ€?s New Notion of Form""; ""DADA and Language""; ""Parallels with the Russian Transrationalists and Andrei Bely""; ""Zaum and the Higher Consciousness of Trans-Sense""; ""Picabia, Man Ray, and the Dadaist Art of the Machine""; ""Duchamp and DADAâ€?s Art of the Machine""; ""Entrâ€?acte: Commentary""; ""Man Rayâ€?s Dada Cinema""; ""Emak Bakia: Introduction""; ""Emak Bakia: Commentary""; ""DADA: In Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""3 Surrealism and the Cinema""
  • ""Beginnings""""Psychoanalysis and the Occult: The Intrusion of Alien Forms into Consciousness and the Poetics of the Surrealist Literary Image""; ""DADA and Surrealism""; ""Hippolyte Taine, Hasard Objectif, the Poetic Image, and the Cinema""; ""The Cinema, Photography, and “the Marvellousâ€?""; ""Photography, the Surrealist Object, and the Unheimlich""; ""Ernstâ€?s Frottage as a Handmade Trace and Automatist Form""; ""Surrealism, Apollinaire, and Reconciliation""; ""Surrealism and the Hegelian Dialectic""; ""Surrealism and the Freudian Dialectic""
  • ""Dalí, the Double Image, and Paranoiac-Critical Methods""""Dalí against Idealism""; ""Dalí, Paranoia, and Lacan: A New Phase of Surrealism Begins""; ""Lacanâ€?s Theories and Surrealistsâ€? Conception of the Poetic Image""; ""Un chien andalou: Commentary""; ""An Anti-Art Film""; ""The Verbal Image""; ""Surrealismâ€?s Fissures and Luis Buñuelâ€?s Las Hurdes: Tierra sin pan""; ""Las Hurdes and the Documentary""; ""Dialectical Structure in Las Hurdes""; ""Las Hurdes and Batailleâ€?s Heterology""; ""Las Hurdes and the Sacred""; ""Las Hurdes as an Ethnographic Film""
  • ""The Hurdanos in History""